AUTHOR ARCHIVES

Adam Wollner

December 6, 2016
Since ar­riv­ing in the Sen­ate six years ago, Rand Paul has been a con­sist­ent thorn in the side of Demo­crats and Re­pub­lic­ans alike on for­eign policy. And that’s not go­ing to change, even once a mem­ber of his own party oc­cu­pies the Oval Of­fice. As Don­ald Trump has rolled out...

December 6, 2016
Since ar­riv­ing in the Sen­ate six years ago, Rand Paul has been a con­sist­ent thorn in the side of Demo­crats and Re­pub­lic­ans alike on for­eign policy. And that’s not go­ing to change, even once a mem­ber of his own party oc­cu­pies the Oval Of­fice. As Don­ald Trump has rolled out...

September 30, 2016
Don­ald Trump ap­pears to have a new fa­vor­ite way to at­tack Hil­lary Clin­ton: her cam­paign sched­ule. In the run-up to the first de­bate of the gen­er­al elec­tion, Trump sug­ges­ted on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions Clin­ton was sleep­ing in­stead of pre­par­ing for this past Monday’s show­down. At the de­bate it­self, Trump ques­tioned wheth­er...

March 14, 2016
WEST CHESTER, Ohio—Late last month, the But­ler County Re­pub­lic­an Party un­veiled Rick San­tor­um, the pres­id­en­tial-can­did­ate-turned-Marco-Ru­bio-sur­rog­ate, as the head­line speak­er for its an­nu­al Lin­coln Day din­ner here. Or­gan­izers were ex­pect­ing re­cord at­tend­ance, and not just be­cause the event would take place three days be­fore the Ohio primary. The party was also...

December 21, 2015
Lind­sey Gra­ham has sus­pen­ded his long-shot bid for the Re­pub­lic­an pres­id­en­tial nom­in­a­tion. “While we have run a cam­paign that has made a real dif­fer­ence, I have con­cluded this is not my time,” the South Car­o­lina sen­at­or said in a video mes­sage emailed to sup­port­ers Monday morn­ing. Gra­ham struggled to gain...

December 21, 2015
Correction: An earlier headline said Graham was the last military veteran in the 2016 presidential race; Jim Gilmore is. Lind­sey Gra­ham has sus­pen­ded his long-shot bid for the Re­pub­lic­an pres­id­en­tial nom­in­a­tion. “While we have run a cam­paign that has made a real dif­fer­ence, I have con­cluded this is not my...

November 4, 2015
After serving eight terms in Con­gress, Tom Cole­man got used to ask­ing people to vote for him. This Elec­tion Day, though, Cole­man camped out in front of a Vir­gin­ia pre­cinct ask­ing for sig­na­tures on be­half of an­oth­er can­did­ate. As voters ar­rived at Wash­ing­ton Mill Ele­ment­ary School in Al­ex­an­dria on a...

June 4, 2015
In a field as crowded as Republicans' 2016 presidential scramble, a candidate needs defining characteristics to stand out from the pack. It's a challenge for any candidate, and an especially difficult one for Texas Gov. Rick Perry: The race has other former governors, other social conservatives, other fiscal conservatives, and...

May 5, 2015
As American voters prepare to move on from President Obama in next year's election, a new poll suggests they actually like him better right now than any of his most likely replacements. In the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal survey, pollsters asked whether people felt positively or negatively toward Obama and...

March 11, 2015
The GOP's 2016 contenders aren't just rallying behind a controversial letter Senate Republicans sent to Tehran. Many are eager to affix their signatures. Most potential Republican presidential candidates have now expressed support for the letter signed by 47 GOP senators, warning Iran that the next president could easily undo any...